Pluricentric Languages and Non-Dominant Varieties Worldwide

This is the second of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises 17 papers about two major pluricentric languages: Portuguese and Spanish.

Autorentext

Rudolf Muhr is head of the Austrian German Research Centre at the University of Graz and coordinator of the Working Group on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV).

Inhalt

Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variation in Portuguese; Pioneering papers about characteristics and developments of Brazilian Portuguese; Features of emerging non-dominant varieties of Portuguese in Asia and Africa; The delimitation of the national varieties of Spanish in Argentina and Central America; Pre-scientific codification and second-level pluricentricity etc.